FULTON COUNTY NWS
Published Every Thursday.
B. .W. PECK, Editor and Proprietor,
McCONNELLSBURG, PA.
MAY 11, 1911
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Church Notices.
Announcements tor Sunday, May
14, 1911.
HCSTONTOWN, U. B. ClIAUOE,
E. H. Swank, pastor.
Hustontown Preaching 10:30 p. m.
Bethel Preaching 2:30.
Knobsvllle Preaching 7:30.
HUSTONTOWN, M. E. ClARClE.
L. W. McGarvey , Pastor.
Fairview Sunday i:hool 9:30.
Preaching 10:30.
Center Sunday school 1:30.
Preaching, 2:30.
Hustoutown Sunday school 9:30.
Fp worth League, 7:00
Preaching 7:30.
Prayer meeting Thursday 7:30. p. m.,
followed by cabinet meeting of Ep
worth League.
It Startled the World
when the astounding claims wre
first made for Bucklen's Arnica
Salve, but forty years of wonder
ful cures have proved them true,
and everywhere it is now known
as the best salve on earth for
Burns, Boils, Scalds, Sores, Cuts
Bruises, Sprains, Swellings, Ec
zema, Chapped hands, Fever
Sores and Piles. Only 25c at
Trout's drug store.
WEST DUBLIN.
Linemen of the American Tele
graph and Telephone company
were busy last week along the
State Road putting on new in
sulators for the Company's wires.
John P. Johnson is visiting
relatives in Ohio.
William Rowe who had been
employed at Minersville, Hunt
ingdon county, and his sister
Lessie Rowe who had been living
in Indiana, Indiana county, are
at the home of their grand-fatner
G. Clinton Melius.
Mrs. Susan King spent a few
days recently with relatives at
Shirleysbu rg. Her nephew
Benjamin Ripple accompanied
her home on Monday of last week
and returned to Shirleysburg the
next day.
Edwin Laidig of Minersville at
tended Sunday school at Fair
view on Sunday morning.
George W. Sipe of Wells Val
ley passed through this place on
Monday forenoon taking his
daughter Eleanor to McConnells
burg to attend the Normal school.
DallasBrant is attending school
in McConnellsburg'.
Others attending from the
southern part of our township
are Catherine Laidig and Ethel
Sipes.
The delegates elected from
Fairview M. E. Sunday school to
attend the County S. S. conven
tion are Hiram Clevenger and
Edwin Brant.
This Sunday school expects to
hold Children's Day service the
second Sunday of June. . It is
hoped that this year's service
will be the equal of former Chil
dren's Day services at Fairview.
Some needed repairs to the in
terior of Fairview church will
likely be made in tbe near future.
A boy came to William S.Shaw's
the first of this week. While he
gave no name or occupation they
will kindly care for him.
Quite cool weather was the or
der last week. On Thursday
and Friday ice and frost were
seen.
A numker of the Fairview Sun
day school have begun the Teach
er Training work, and it is hoped
that others will take up the work.
ENID.
Charles Brown and wife, of
Altoona, spent a few days with
relatives last week.
Edgar Keith and Nellie Foster
went to Altoona last Sunday.
Corn and potato planting is
the order of work now among the
farmers.
Miss Shope is visiting her sis
ter Mrs. Ella Truax.
W. II. Barnett and wife, of
Minersville, took dinner with the
latter's parents on Wednesday
enroute to the reception tendered
Dorsey Barnett and wife at Wells
Tannery.
Harry Stunkard has been
wrestling with mumps for the
last week, but is better at the
last report.
David Knepper and wife, of
Taylor, spent the day with the
latter's mother last Saturday.
Uarry Foster and wife have
gone to housekeeping at Jacobs.
Mrs S. A. Barnett has been
quite poorly for some time.
A. D. Berkstresser and son
Bernard went to Saxton, the
former returned Monday but the
latter will attend summer school
thereunder the instruction of
Harry E. Seville.
Mrs. Mary Lockard and Miss
Annie Finnegan visited at James
B. Hortons last Sunday.
II. M. Edwards has purchased
the home place from the other
heirs.
How's This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for any case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by Hall's
Catarrh Cure.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have
known F. J. Cheney for the last
15 years, and believe him per
fectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able
to carry out any obligations made
by his firm.
Walding, Kinnan & Makvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfuces of the
system. Testimonials sent free.
Sold by all Druggists. Price,
75c. per bottle.
Take Hall's Family Pills for con
stipation.
A Brutal Murder.
Away back behind the nine
teenth century a brutal murder
was committed near Waste House
run, near Mahanoy City, in
Schuylkill county.
The victim of this crime was
John Felbaber, a German ped
dler. The man was tomahawked
and bis possessions taken by his
murderer. Inasmuch as they
were all in copper, they amount
ed to not more than $25.
The mystery was solved with
the arrest and conviction of Ben
jamin Bailey, a young stranger,
who had seen the peddler at a
country inn and surmised that he
carried large sums of money.
One article on some great crime
in Pennsylvania history is print
in each issue of the Sunday North
American. All of these articles
are more than interesting, and
the collection will form a volume
of the state's criminal history.
WATERFALL.
Charles Alloway and family
visited Jacob Cutchall's last Sun
day. Ward Bergstresser spent last
Sunday with his parents Mr. and
Mrs. Daniel Bergstresser.
Charley Newman intends farm
ing for his brother John this
summer.
Freda and Jay Alloway visited
Roy Witter last Sunday.
Wm. Leidy has been doing
some ploughing in our town.
Blaine Begstresser and family
were visiting friends at Gracey
last Saturday.
Roy Cutchall and Ward Berg
stresser are attending school at
Rock Hill.
There will be preaching at Zion
Sunday morning May 14th by
Rev. Weise.
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LOCAL HISTORY..
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doors and wainscoting were fin
ished in hne style. It was sup
plied with combination seats and
desks each for two pupils, and a
large library room was fitted up
with shelves for books. Light
was admitted, to the rooms,
through 12 large windows, heat
was supplied by a large furnace
in the cellar, and the ringing of a
large bell, on top of the building,
called the pupils to school and to
work from play and recreation.
All in all, as a school building,
it was far in advance of any thing
ever thought of, up to that time,
in Wells Valley or, in Fulton
county.
From the time of my first con
nection with the old Gioson
school in 1853 and long before,
there was always a literary soci
ety in connection with the school.
This society wos organized at the
beginning of tbe school term, and
its good work continued until the
end of same. No. 2 and No. 3
schools each being much smaller
than No. 1, usually combined to
carry on this work. These or
ganizations held their' meetings
on one evening in each week.
The members were divided into
three classes debating, declama
tion and composition classes.
The debates were the teachers
and other men who attended the
meetings and took an interest in
the proceedings; and the school
boys, every one of whom was al
ways a member, delivered the de
clamations and tbe compositions.
At close of the school term, the
society, usually, gave an exhibi
tion consisting of declamations,
dialogues and compositions.
These exhibitions were great oc
casions. I do not know why it was so,
but the school girls and young
ladies of the neighborhood never
had any part in tbe work of the
literary societies or in the exhibi
tions. At an exhibition given in
new school bouse at No. 1 at close
of term ot 1858-9, James M. Mc
Clure introduced vocal music as
part of the program and secured
tbe assistance of a number of
young ladies in carrying out his
part of the work. Never before
that time did the girls or young
ladies have part in an exhibition
in Wells Valley.
Mr. Editor, things have chang
ed as the years have gone by.
Our old declamations are now
known as recitations; our old
compositions are essays now, our
dialogues are presentations from
the drama, while tbe old time ex
hibitions would now be known as
entertainments.
On the evening of December
17, 1858, there was organized, in
the new school house, a literary
society which in the scope and
character of the work it accom
plished was as far in advance of
all previous efforts along this line,
as the new school house was in
advance of tbe old school house
at Gibson's. It was known as
the Jeffersonian Literary Soci
ety. Its predecessors were not
named. Its first work 'was di
rected to securing a library and
arrangmgfor a course of lectures.
It was successful in both under
takings. The library shelves
were soon nearly full of valuable
books and the lectures delivered
before it were by men who had
made their mark in the practice
of law and medicine. This soci
ety gave the name of Fulton in
stitute to the new school build
ing. Young men could be pre
pared for college in No. 1 school
at that time. The first teachers
at the Institute were Prof. W. A.
Gray and S. P. Wishart.
In 1859 an effort was made to
make an Independent district of
No. 1. The effort failed, the op
position to t being too strong to
be overcome. 1
In the olden time, spelling,
reading, writing and arithmetic
constituted the school curriculum
spelling and arithmetic Deing
considered of most importance.
Cobb's spellers and readers were
in every school. These readers
with the old English reader and
New Testament. were the reading
books and Rose's and Smiley's
arithmetics with some others
were in use. Except in reading
and spelling there was no attempt
at classification. There could be
none because everybody had his
own book and seldom two had
the same.
(Continued next week,)
SHEARS AND SAWBUCK'S STORE.
Shears and Sawbuck keep a store,
Such as never was before,
City folks they wouldn't sell,
Wouldn't let them have a smell;
Fetched their money but, by jing,
Couldn't buy a blessed thing;
Couldn't meet them face to face,
And then sell them with good grace.
Country trade was what they sought,
Folks who'd pay for what they bought
Fore they saw it, hide or tail,
They sent catalogues, by mail,
Out to every blessed one
Getting mail at Plum Run;
We set up o' nights and read
When we'd orter been in bed.
Book was 'bout as big as sin
Had a lot of pictures in,
And a list of merchandise,
Every kind and every size
Givin' prices that they swore
Knocked out every country store.
Looked so straight and seemed so true,
1 bit at it Jim did, too.
Jim's my neighbor, cross the way
Best man e'er worked in hay,
Just let him top off a stack
Sheds rain like a turtle's back;
Pleasure just to see him work,
Never knew o' Jim to shirk;
Swings a scythe like it was play
Love to watch him in the way.
Well, we, like a pair of fools,
Sent off got some hayin tools;
Jim got harness and a plow,
1, a range I see it now;
Drat the thing, it was so light
Used it for a torch at night;
Throw'd the darn thing in the yard
Use it now for renderin' lard.
Fore Jim used the plow and hour,
Found the blame thing wouldn't scour
Tried his harness broke a tug
Sought for solace in his jug
In the cooler, all that night
Jim reflected on his plight;
In the morning, Richard Stout,
Hardware merchant, bailed him out
Jim said after that he'd stick,
Close as bark, to good ol' Dick,
Since he left the County jail,
Says he wouldn't buy goods by mail;
Says Dick's cheaper, anyhow
Might have saved some on the plow,
On the other goods some more,
At his ol' friend's hardware store.
Jim says, "We can't sell no truck
To such folks as Sbears-Sawbuck:
They '11 take all our cash away
But they won't take our corn and hay."
That seemed purty strange to me,
And I told ol' Jim I'd see
And I wrote to them that night,
Just to see if Jim was right.
Ast' em "What they 'd paid for oats ?
Could they use some likely shoats ?
Had about four tons of hay
1 could ship them right away;
Could I furnish Mr. Shears
With his family roastin' ears?
And, would my friend, Sawbuck,
Buy some of my garden truck?
Answer came, one summer day,
Said they "couldn't use our hay,
And couldn't use our oats or shoats,
Didn't like our billy goats;
When they needed truck to eat,
Bought it down on Water Street;
Sorry, but they must refuse
Anything but cash to use."
Sat down and wrote them, then;
Hate to trouble you again,
But want to thank you sirs,
For your bunch of Cockle Burrs;
If you love your fellow-man,
Treat him good, sirs, when you can."
While our merchants sweetly sleep,
Shears and Sawbuck shear their sheep.
AUCTION!
AUCTION!
AUCTION!
Saturday afternoon and evening,
May 13th.
Intending to close out the
following lines at the earli
est possible time, 'we will y
auction everything in
Dry Goods,
Notions,
Shoes, Hats,
Etc., Etc.
W. H. GREATHEAD,
McConnellsburg, Pa.
Unexpected
Guests
The farmer and his wife were about to sit down to a
cold supper when they saw some old friends driving
towards the house.
The good wife was equal to the occasion thanks to
her New Perfection Oil Cook-stove.
She had it lit in moment, and her guests hardly were seated
on the porch before a hearty hot meal wai ready lor the table
sausages and eggs and long rashers of streaky bacon, and rolls just
crisped in the oven and fresh coffee and the hostess herself as cool
and neat as if she had not been near the kitchen.
She never could have managed it with an old-fashioned range.
The New Perfection is the quickest, most convenient and best cooker
on the market.
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TWO CARLOADS.
Two Carloads of Buggies at one time, seems pretty
strong for a Fulton county dealer, but that is just what
W. R EVANS, Hustontown, Pa.,
has just received. In this lot are 5 different grades and
styles, of Buggies and Runabouts Including the Milllin
burg. He has on hand a large stock of
Hand Made Buggy Harness.
The Prices? Don't mention it. If the prices wore not be
low the lowest, he would not be selling by the carload.
Prize Offers from Leading Manufacturers
Book on patents. "Hints to inventors." 'Inventions needed.'
"Why some inventors fail." Send rough sketch or model for
search of Patent Office records. Our Mr. Greeley was formerly
Acting Commissioner of Patents, and as such had full charge .ol
the U. S. Patent Office.
GREELEY & M9INTEE
Patent Attorneys
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